280 Mr. H. AViiistler on the [Ibis, 



singing on the ground. Next day one was seen at Shadi 

 Sheikhan, and another was disturbed from a cotton-field at 

 Mochiwala on 15 August. It is probably only a summer 

 visitor to the district. 



Pyrrhulauda frontalis affinis Blyth. (1 skin.) 



A female was obtained by Ticehurst near Pabbarwala on 

 23 December, 1917. 



Pyrrhulauda grisea (Scop.). (5 skins.) 



This Finch-Lark is found in numbers throughout the 

 riverain and the neighbouring areas on both sides of the 

 River Chenab from March until September, and breeds there. 

 I found a nest with one egg in a cotton-field on 28 July. 

 Probably the majority of these birds are summer visitors as, 

 with the exception of an occasional flock noticed about Chund 

 bridge, I have not met with it in winter. 



The male is in song from March until August : the song 

 is uttered both on the ground and in the air, in the latter 

 case while the bird is rising and fulling in a series of deep 

 stoops, keeping round about over the same patch of ground ; 

 reaching its highest pitch it closes its wings and falls 

 steeply, to recover and mount again while still some height 

 above the ground. Near the end of its fall, if the observer 

 is close at hand, a whirr can be heard, due to the pressure of 

 the air in the wing-feathers. The song is a monotonous but 

 sweet trill, " trrreecee,'^ without variation. 



Anthus campestris (L.). (9 skins.) 



The Tawny Pipit first arrives in the district during the 

 last week in August, and although I am of opinion that 

 many of the birds seen in that month and in September are 

 merely passage migrants and move on farther south by the 

 beginning of October, the species remains in fair numbers 

 throughout the winter until the end of March, and a few are 

 to be seen during the first fortnight of April. There was 

 some sign of a return passage commencing about the end of 

 February. 



